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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (290683)	7/12/2004 1:54:26 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Yet another bad Blair Day =============================== Last week's US Senate Report on Intelligence absolutely slated George Tenet's CIA for their failures in the lead up to the war in Iraq. But, the Bush administration seemed to get off lightly. Why? Apparently, that part of the investigation hasn't yet been completed and, surprise surprise, it won't be completed until after the election! Does this mean the Bush administration weren't guilty of pressurising the CIA analysts into providing intelligence which adhered to their preconcieved ideas? Of course not! There's little doubt that they did indeed pressurize the CIA analysts. But, with the summer holidays coming up, there just isn't enough time to get it completed. Clearly, it's not a priority! On Wednesday, Lord Butler's report on British Intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq will be published. It too is expected to condemn the Intelligence services for their part in the great Iraq deception. But, unlike the US Senate's report, it is also expected to confirm that Downing Street did indeed "sex up" the September 2002 dossier which included the claim that Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons could be deployed within 45 minutes. According to last night's Panorama programme (BBC), Tony Blair didn't just pressurise the intelligence services into providing the intelligence he needed. No, he went further than that! He actually added words and phraseology that weren't even in the JIC's report in order to help make his case (ie. the report was indeed "sexed up" by Downing Street). If the Butler report confirms this, Tony Blair's position as UK Prime Minister will become untenable!!! news.bbc.co.uk Dr Brian Jones, formerly of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), told the BBC's Panorama programme that no-one on his staff had seen evidence of the scale of weapons capability being touted by Downing Street. John Morrison, former deputy chief of DIS, meanwhile said Mr Blair's claims on Iraqi WMD were met by disbelief in Whitehall. "The prime minister was going way beyond anything any professional analyst would have agreed," he said.